A pic of All About Eve costar Marlyn Monroe before attending the 1951 Oscars, which honored films released in 1950. Hosted by Fred Astaire, the show happened at the RKO Pantages theatre on March 29, 1951. Joseph L. Mankiewicz‘s All About Eve was nominated for 14 Oscars and won six. Billy Wilder‘s Sunset Boulevard was nominated for 11 Oscars but won only three — Best Screenplay, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration (Black-and-White) and Best Musical Score (Franz Waxman).
Roughly two months ago a very early draft of Eric Roth‘s screenplay for Killers of the Flower Moon (dated 2.20.17,...
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Frances McDormand‘s Fern was strong but mule-stubborn and at the end of the day self-destructive, and this stunted psychology led...
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Can’t decide which performance is better, although I’ve always leaned toward Tina Vitale, her cynical New Jersey moll behind the...
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Two days ago (1.19) a Facebook tribute congratulated Tippi Hedren for having reached her 94th year (blow out the candles!)...
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A friend suggested a list of the Ten Best American Crime Flicks of the ‘70s. By which he meant films...
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I’ve never been able to give myself over to Sam Peckinpah’s Major Dundee, a 1965 Civil War–era western, and I’ve...
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